来自《西部风云史 第1集》

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  l suppose the best place to begin our family's storyis with Grandsire Abraham.
  我想我们的家族史最好还是从我的祖父亚伯拉罕开始讲起
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  Many was the time as a boy l listened to his tale
  我还是孩子的时候就常听说
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  of how a cannon subtracted a leg at the Battle of Yorktown.
  他是如何在约克镇战役中被加农炮打瘸一只腿的故事
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  l'd have wagered both mineto see what he saw.
  如果能看到当时的情景 我宁可倾家荡产
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  My misfortune was to be born in a drab age
  我的不幸便是出生在一个单调的年代
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  and to have lived in the stifle of a barn
  还要与一群手工匠们共同生活在一间乏闷的谷仓里
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  where a man was only as good as the things he crafted.
  我们曾是车轮匠
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  Wheel wrights we were, going back to the time when they invented the damn thing.
  那东西刚发明的时候我们便以此为生了
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  Wheelers made wheels.But in my day, it seemed the wheels made the Wheelers.
  车轮匠造车轮 可在我那个年代却更像是车轮使唤着车轮匠
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  All the long day, l lived in my books.
  白天我沉浸在小说之中
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  And by night,
  到了晚上
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  l dreamed of a better life beyond the Mississippi.
  我又梦想着密西西比河对岸的快乐生活